HowLongToBeat.com integration/scraper

With the multitude of games we have on an SD card, it’s not easy to pick which game to play. But oftentimes I choose games according to the expected playtime (“I’m not gonna spend 135 hours on that”), and having this information in MuOS, next to the game’s title, seems logical.

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This would require API access to their data, which there doesn’t appear to be anywhere. That website is also owned by a corporation, and their data is subject to a ToS (Terms of Service) agreement.

Beyond that, there is a longform text field for text metadata that you can supply to a scraper if you want to display it associated with the game. While you can’t view it off the main content explorer, you could view it using the Preview window.

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People play games? :melting_face:

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This is a great idea in theory, however as @arkun has pointed out there is no public API and even then if there was we would be under the license of IGN who runs that data.

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